vSphere 5.1

VMware vSphere 5.1 Architecture.

• VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b Released
• Configuring IP Pools – What are vSphere IP pools for?
• VMware vCenter 5.1U1a Released fixing SSO Multidomain Authentication bug
• Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012 – SQL Setup  – Part 1
• Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012 – ODBC and vCenter components install  – Part 2
• VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Released – What’s new?
• VMware SSO Install – Single Sign On Server Installation Options
• How to Configure VMware High Availability (HA) Cluster
• VMware Certificate Automation Tool – How to use
• What is VMware .vSphere-HA folder for?
• vSphere 5 – New High Availability Agent Introduced – FDM
• VMware Datastore Heartbeating – How this functionality works?
• HA agent on the host failed – what means the different possible messages?
• What is VMware CTK file format?

vSphere 5.1 Components.

• TOP Features of vSphere 5.1
• vSphere Web Client – New in VMware vSphere 5.1
• Virtual Hardware Version 9
• vSphere 5.1 – New Features and Enhancements in Networking
• vSphere 5.1 and New VMware Enhanced vMotion
• vSphere Web Client – New in VMware vSphere 5.1
• New vSphere Web Client Search Capabilities
• How-to increase the default timeout value of vSphere Web Client

vSphere Licensing:

• vSphere 5.1 licensing – vRAM is gone – rather good news, any more?
• ESXi Free vs Paid – What are the differences?
• Windows Server 2012 licensing in virtual environments – simulation for smaller shops

vSphere Data Protection:

• vSphere Data Protection – a new backup product included with vSphere 5.1
• Part 1: vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – install, configure, manage
• Part 2: vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – backup and master
• Part 3: vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – restore operations
• Possibly needed: How-to reset root password in VDP
• How to upgrade VDP – Upgrading vSphere Data Protection with the Upgrade ISO
• How to migrate backups from VDR to VDP

vSphere Patching:

• How to patch ESXi 5 without vCenter
• ESXi Free – how to upgrade to ESXi 5.1
• How to install VMware VIBs 
  
• ESXi maintenance mode via the CLI how-to and some more commands

 vSphere Videos:

• VMware vSphere 5.1 Networking Backup and Restore Video
• VMware vSphere 5.1 Video – VDP, VR – look and feel

vSphere Storage Appliance:

• vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 new features and enhancements
• vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.1 – what’s new

VMware SRM and vSphere Replication:

• VMware SRM 5.1 and vSphere Replication – New release – 64bit process, Application Quiescence

 vCloud Director, vCloud Connector:

• vCloud Director 5.1 released – what’s new
• vCloud Connector 5.1 – What’s new?

VMware Mirage:

• VMware Mirage – How-to upgrade from previous release?
• VMware Mirage – The Lab Setup (Part 1)
• VMware Mirage Setup – MMC and Client Setup (Part 2)
• VMware Mirage – Migrating XP to Windows 7 (Part 3)
• Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server

vSphere Free Utilities:

• VMware View Pool Manager – Free Tool
• VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone Released
  
• vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Released
• Download VMware vCenter Multi Hypervizor Manager 1.1 (beta)
• VMware vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script released
• Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 Free Version (New)
• Virtual Health Monitor – Free product for VMware, Hyper-v, Xen, RHEL, Citrix XenServer, OpenStack, CloudStack…
• Veeam One Free Edition 6.5 (New)
• USB Image tool – Free utility for imaging USB sticks
• Excellent new utility for Optimizing Windows 7/8 VDI desktops from VMware called VMware OS Optimization Tool

• VM Shutdown script
  Connect-VIServer vCenterServer
Get-VM | Where { $_.PowerState -eq "poweredOn" } | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
• VM Startup script
  Connect-VIServer vCenterServer
Get-VM | Start-VM -Confirm -RunAsync